BNHA Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park
Affiliations
Chesapeake Bay Gateway
Interpretive Framework
Gaining Freedom for All: African American Heritage and the Struggle for Equality
Seeking Prosperity on the Chesapeake: Baltimore History from Colonial Times through the 1800s
Star Attractions
Historic Fell’s Point Trail
Resource Type
Museums
1417 Thames St
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Fell’s Point chronicles African American maritime history. The museum includes exhibits on Frederick Douglass, who lived in Baltimore as an enslaved child and young man before escaping north to freedom. Visitors also explore the life of Isaac Myers, a free-born African American who founded the Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company (where the maritime park is located today).